US7578538B2 - System for engaging a dashboard with a chassis of a motor vehicle - Google Patents
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- B62D65/00—Designing, manufacturing, e.g. assembling, facilitating disassembly, or structurally modifying motor vehicles or trailers, not otherwise provided for
- B62D65/02—Joining sub-units or components to, or positioning sub-units or components with respect to, body shell or other sub-units or components
- B62D65/14—Joining sub-units or components to, or positioning sub-units or components with respect to, body shell or other sub-units or components the sub-units or components being passenger compartment fittings, e.g. seats, linings, trim, instrument panels
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- the present invention relates to a system for engaging a dashboard with a chassis of a motor vehicle.
- a dashboard of a motor vehicle generally comprises a support beam whose ends and intermediate portion comprise means for engagement with corresponding zones of the chassis of the vehicle.
- the engagement means used are constituted by screw type mechanisms which are suitable for co-operating with nuts of the chassis.
- the invention relates to a system for engaging a dashboard with a chassis of a motor vehicle, wherein one of the components, the dashboard or the chassis, comprises hook-like means which are suitable for being engaged in an opening of the other component, the chassis or the dashboard, and for co-operating with means which form an engagement lock and which can be moved between a retracted assembly/disassembly position for the two components and an active position for engaging the two components under the control of operating means.
- the system comprises one or more of the following features, taken in isolation or in accordance with any technically possible combination:
- FIG. 1 is a side view of an engagement system according to the invention
- FIG. 2 is a perspective view of this system with broken-away portions
- FIG. 3 is a perspective view of details of means forming the lock and being involved in the construction of such a system.
- FIGS. 4 , 5 , 6 and 7 are detailed views illustrating the movement of the means forming the lock from their retracted assembly/disassembly position for the two components towards their active position for engagement thereof.
- FIGS. 1 and 2 illustrate a system for engaging two components with each other, one of which is formed, for example, by a beam P of a dashboard of a motor vehicle and the other is formed, for example, by a corresponding component, such as a fitting F of the chassis C of this vehicle.
- the beam comprises a cap Ch which is provided with the hook-like means which are generally designated 1 in this Figure.
- Those hook-like means are, for example, generally U-shaped, the ends of which are fixed to the corresponding component.
- Those hook-like means are suitable for being engaged in an opening 1 , of the other component and more particularly, for examples the fitting F thereof and for co-operating with means which form a lock and which are generally designated 2 in these Figures, and which can be moved between a retracted assembly/disassembly position for the two components, as is illustrated in FIGS. 1 and 2 , and an active position for engaging the two components with each other under the control of operating means, as is illustrated in FIGS. 3 to 7 .
- those operating means are generally designated 3 and comprise, for example, any motorisation member such as, for example, a pneumatic jack whose power supply is controlled in order to bring about the movement of the means which form the lock towards the active position thereof.
- those operating means have an output shank which is generally designated 4 and which is connected in an articulated manner, for example, to a first handling rod which is generally designated 5 , the other end of which is articulated at 6 to a plate 7 for supporting the means which form the lock.
- That plate is itself articulated at one end to the corresponding component, for example, the cap Ch, by means of an articulation rod which is generally designated 8 in this Figure.
- That plate for supporting the means forming the lock carries, as is illustrated in FIG. 3 , a locking latch which is generally designated 9 and which is mounted so as to be slidingly movable in a slide which is generally designated 10 and which is fixed to that plate.
- Resilient urging means are provided between the bottom of that slide 10 and the corresponding end of the latch 9 in order to urge the latch 9 into a withdrawn position, as is illustrated in FIG. 3 .
- first rod 5 is also articulated in the region of its intermediate portion to an intermediate portion of a second rod which is generally designated 11 and a first end of which is articulated to the corresponding component and more particularly the cap Ch, for example, by means of an articulation rod which is generally designated 12 in these Figures.
- the second end (generally designated 13 ) of that second rod 11 constitutes, as will be described in greater detail below, means for moving and retracting the latch 9 during the movement of the means which form the lock towards the active locking position thereof.
- Tensioning means are also provided between the two components.
- those tensioning means are formed by at least one washer which is generally designated 14 and which is arranged around the hook-like means.
- each corresponding location of the support beam of that dashboard may be provided with an engagement system of this type, the openings then being associated with the fittings of the corresponding chassis portions of the vehicle.
- the dashboard is engaged in position in the chassis.
- the hook-like means are then engaged in the corresponding openings and the assembly operator can initiate the power supply for the operating means, that is to say, corresponding pneumatic jacks.
- the output shank 4 of the jack of each system then begins to move out, pushing the first rod 5 so as to cause the plate 7 to pivot about the axis of the articulation rod 8 thereof in the direction indicated by the arrow A in those FIGS. 4 to 7 .
- the power supply of the operating means can then be disconnected.
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- the means which form the lock are carried by a plate which is articulated to the corresponding component and which is connected to the operating means by a first rod, a first end of which is associated with the operating means and a second end of which is articulated to the plate in order to move it between retracted and active positions,
- the means which form the lock comprise a locking latch which can be moved in a sliding manner in a slide of the plate counter to the urging of resilient means under the action of a second handling rod which is articulated to the corresponding component and to the first rod, when the means which form the lock are moved between the retracted position and the active position thereof, in order to move past the hook-like means and to become engaged thereunder in a position for engaging the two components with each other;
- tensioning means are provided between the two components;
- the tensioning means comprise at least one tension washer which is positioned around the hook-like means;
- the operating means comprise a pneumatic jack.
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FR0754025A FR2914377B1 (en) | 2007-03-26 | 2007-03-26 | SYSTEM FOR ATTACHING A DASHBOARD ON A MOTOR VEHICLE CHASSIS. |
FR07/54025 | 2007-03-26 |
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US5881798A (en) | 1994-03-30 | 1999-03-16 | Golden Aluminum Company | Block adjustment in a continuous caster |
FR2786445A1 (en) | 1998-11-27 | 2000-06-02 | Renault | DEVICE FOR FIXING A REMOVABLE SEAT ON A MOTOR VEHICLE FLOOR |
US6305733B1 (en) * | 1999-06-23 | 2001-10-23 | Sai Automotive Allibert Industrie | Cockpit for an automotive vehicle |
JP2002019496A (en) | 2000-07-06 | 2002-01-23 | Honda Motor Co Ltd | Coupling device for instrument panel |
US20030122404A1 (en) * | 2001-12-27 | 2003-07-03 | David Duchez | Dashboard structural assembly and method for the production of same |
JP2005186634A (en) | 2003-12-24 | 2005-07-14 | Calsonic Kansei Corp | Cockpit module grasping structure |
EP1586497A2 (en) | 2001-04-27 | 2005-10-19 | Nissan Motor Company, Limited | Apparatus and method for installing cockpit module in vehicle body |
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US5881798A (en) | 1994-03-30 | 1999-03-16 | Golden Aluminum Company | Block adjustment in a continuous caster |
FR2786445A1 (en) | 1998-11-27 | 2000-06-02 | Renault | DEVICE FOR FIXING A REMOVABLE SEAT ON A MOTOR VEHICLE FLOOR |
US6305733B1 (en) * | 1999-06-23 | 2001-10-23 | Sai Automotive Allibert Industrie | Cockpit for an automotive vehicle |
JP2002019496A (en) | 2000-07-06 | 2002-01-23 | Honda Motor Co Ltd | Coupling device for instrument panel |
EP1586497A2 (en) | 2001-04-27 | 2005-10-19 | Nissan Motor Company, Limited | Apparatus and method for installing cockpit module in vehicle body |
US20030122404A1 (en) * | 2001-12-27 | 2003-07-03 | David Duchez | Dashboard structural assembly and method for the production of same |
JP2005186634A (en) | 2003-12-24 | 2005-07-14 | Calsonic Kansei Corp | Cockpit module grasping structure |
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